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Mesos – Board Game Review
Mesos is a card-driven strategy game set during the Mesolithic era, where players take on the roles of early tribal leaders guiding their people through the transition from nomadic hunting to settled life. Mesos focuses on drafting cards from a shared market linked to turn order: taking more cards generally means acting later in the next round, creating a tradeoff between short-term benefits and long-term positioning.
How to Become The Dark Lord and Die Trying – Book Review
It’s been a while since I did a book review. I started a new job in Janurary, and that really took up all of my reading time. But one of my best friends recommended How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler to me. HtBtDLaDT is basically Groundhog Day meets Deadpool with a dash of Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a darkly humourous fantasy romp about what happens when the hero decides she’s done playing nice.
Final Fantasy SNES Trilogy Retrospective
When I started this Final Fantasy Project, my challnege to play through every single player mainline entry in the series, it was mostly just an excuse to replay Final Fantasy IV again, if I’m being honest. That game was my first true JRPG, played on my SNES in the mid-90s, and it became my gold standard for the entire series. The bar to which I’ve held every Final Fantasy entry against. I’ve long claimed it’s my favourite Final Fantasy, but, truth be told, I hadn’t actually finished many of them. So this project is equal parts nostalgia trip and a chance to give the whole series a fair shot.
Cockroach Poker – Board Game Review
I generally don’t like bluffing games. They’re hard to start, as it usually requires everyone at the table to have such a firm grasp on the rules and potential outcomes, that I don’t think they’re worth overcoming that barrier to entry. Also, I just don’t like lying to people. Trying to keep a poker face, or convince someone else that I’m telling the truth or lying, just does not bring me joy. So let me tell you about Cockroach Poker.
Mid-Year Tabletop Challenge
The midyear challenge has been initiated for the past 3 years by Rolling Reggie on his social media channels, so if you want to see what other creators have gotten in on this challenge, be sure to give Rolling Reggie a follow! Without further ado, let’s do this!
Cryo – Board Game Review
Cryo starts with a disaster. A mission gone wrong. A colony ship crash landing onto a desolate, frozen planet. The ship utterly broken with crew in cryostasis pods strewn about the mountainside. Players take on the role of separate, hostile factions, competing to accrue resources and shuttle their tribes stasis pods into the nearby caverns before the sun sets and everything left on the surface is lost to the unsurvivable cold.
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy Challenge Home Page Introduction Writing a review of Final Fantasy VI feels a little intimidating. This is a game that’s regularly listed among the greatest JRPGs of all time, if not one of the greatest video games of all time. NPR, Den of Geek, and Push...
Hues and Cues – Board Game Review
“Coffee.”Is it dark roast? milky tan? Burnt countertop? If it's black to dark brown, which exact shade of dark brown is coffee? Hues and Cues is a game that lives entirely in the disconnect between your brain and your eyeballs. A party game where you try to lead your...
